This is an REI co-op studios production.

This ship is hauling a cargo of shadows.

At least, that's how it looks in the dim light of your lantern.

Down here in the hold, a thousand shadows shift with every heave of the sea.

Sliding across the straining towers of rope-lashed cargo that crowd all around.

The storm outside roars, and the whole groans and screams under the strain until you aren't sure those sounds are coming from the hole at all.

But you have to keep going, because you know you have it cornered.

Down there, down, as far as you can go.

Down there past the furthest edge of your light.

Hiding.

Tucked into a damp corner where the filthy bilge water swirls around its feet.

You finally caught up to the stow away.

But as your footsteps echo, one after the other on the grating beneath you,

and the sound of the storm roars outside, and the shadows shift.

You begin to wonder who, or what, you have cornered down here.

And if the only way out is through you, then what if that's the way it decides to go?

In the dimness up ahead you see it, a shadow that moves against the sea.

A sound that the ship doesn't make.

It's the stow away.

But it's not what you thought it was.

This is the Camp Monsters podcast.

In the old days, sea captains used to trail bottles of their favorite beverages on a rope

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